Re: patch: partition type f

James Mastros (root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 14:44:01 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Janet Walz wrote:
> Checking the kernel source, the fields Linux uses work the exact same way for
> types f and 5 (based on the one sample on hand). Thus, the following trivial
> patch to the kernel (of apparently any recent version -- 2.0.30, 2.0.33, and
> 2.1.76 have no differences in these areas.)
Umm... 2.1.77 and up have this functionality (calling them
WIN98_EXTENDED_PARTITIONs); it is implemented in almost exactly the same way
(it goes between DOS_... and LINUX_...).

> Also note that this is only a solution to half the problem. You can see
> and access the existing partitions inside a type f, but until the Linux
> fdisk knows how to deal with type f partitions, you still won't be able
> to put Linux-type logical partitions inside a type f, and Windows 95
> fdisk seemed to reject the idea of large type 5s.
(Not a kernel problem (just mentioning, not flaming)). The patch to fdisk
should be as trivial as this one.

Guys -- would it violate the feature frezze (not that it hasn't been done
before) in 2.0.x to backport the WIN98_EXTENDED_PARTITONs? After all, it is
just 2 lines of code.

-=- James Mastros

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